Stinkypete
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You can interpret from that whatever you wish, the truth is Woodward was getting players for Ole, and was involved in negotiations with Rangnick and Matt Judge after the announcement of Murtough as DOF and Fletcher as Technical Director. After the Super League fiasco Woodward needed to leave the spotlight and so until his official departure they continued down his path with Murtough as a front man.So in other words even Woodward didn't trust Murtough to do the job he himself hired him for. Quite damning actually
All of that is irrelevant to the point, which I have seen repeatedly stated here which was that since Murtough took over we have continued to sign managers who don't offer continuation. This is a stupid statement because it is not seated in any level of fact. Murtough took over whilst Ole was in charge. Ole's style of football whatever that was, is irrelevant as are all signings made for that manager because they are tainted by Woodward interference, and regardless you do not sign a DOF to rebuild and force his hand by saying you have to do it with this squad. Murtough came in and said to Ole, we want to build towards a high pressing front foot style, which Ole did attempt, without a DM and upgrades through the spine of the team however this was always going to be a failure, that was Murtoughs first mistake, he should have had a refresh in the Summer of Oles last season, with targets the club under his watch scouted.
Ole was fired and we hired Rangnick in the Interim, I have no doubt that Murtough had a hand in this signing but believe the consultancy role and other nonsense like having his assistant give advice from Russia on match plans etc were not his decisions. Rangnick was influential in developing a Gegen press and front foot football, the manager fit the DOF philosophy.
After Rangnick we hired Ten Hag, another manager that fit what Murtough wanted.
So in answer to that statement repeated here, on paper no the club has not repeated that mistake since Murtough took over.
What should be questioned is the approach, our two best players Rashford and Bruno are never going to fit that tactical style, they could probably do a job if they had a best in class coaching system around them but paying them upwards of 300k to not fit into the spine of what your trying to achieve is massively detrimental no matter how good they have been.